Vanderbilt University History of Art Blog

August, 2016

Architectural historian Jing Zhuge, associate professor in the School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, will present a lecture on Thursday, September 1, from 12:15-1:30 pm in Buttrick Hall 123. The title of her lecture is “Identity, Morality and Domesticity: A Merchant’s House in 16th- and 17th-century North China in The Plum in the Golden Vase.”…

Jing Zhuge, associate professor in the School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, will present a lecture on Wednesday, August 31, from 9:10-10 a.m., in Cohen Memorial Hall 324. Her lecture is entitled “Historic Preservation in China: Interest Chains and Value Judgments.” Historic preservation is a global issue of pressing concern. Her presentation, sponsored by the…

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly on August 25. Johns was recognized for his book The Visual Culture of the Catholic Enlightenment (Penn State University Press, 2014), a culmination of many years of painstaking archival research. The…

Join the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt in celebrating the opening of the 2016-17 exhibition, “Transformations: An exhibition inspired by Lily Clayton Hansen’s Word of Mouth: Nashville Conversations” on Thursday, September 1, from 5-7 pm at 1801 Edgehill Avenue. What can the authentic capture of a moment in a creative…

It has been 47 years since Ben Shahn’s mosaic Peabody—1968 was dedicated in the Hobbs Human Development Laboratory on what was then the campus of George Peabody College for Teachers. The effort to commission Shahn, an artist well known for his advocacy for the poor, was spearheaded by Susan Gray, professor of psychology, emerita, and…

Nearly a century after Tennessee became the 36th state—the last state needed—to ratify the 19th Amendment giving all women the right to vote, HART alumnus and local sculptor Alan LeQuire will unveil his large-scale public monument to suffragists on Women’s Equality Day, Friday, August 26. The formal ceremony will be held from 11 a.m. to…

Still a relatively recent transplant to this city, I was quite interested when a colleague introduced me to the professional organization known as ICON (Inter-Museum Council of Nashville), a network of professionals committed to encouraging the development and education of Nashville-area museums and cultural institutions. The most recent ICON event I attended was held at…